1. <operating system> What Unix does when a critical internal consistency
checks fails in such a way that Unix cannot continue. The kernel attempts to
print a short message on the console and write an image of memory into the swap
area on disk. This can be analysed later using adb. The kernel will then either
wait in a tight loop until the machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic
Unix manual page: panic(8).
2. Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem which prevents it
from continuing to run.
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